This document discusses strategic IT issues for demanding businesses in the 21st century. It addresses topics such as cost reduction, disaster recovery, green IT, compliance, SLAs, and data deduplication. It also covers trends in physical, virtual, and cloud utilization. The document provides information on migrating server workloads to the cloud and consuming cloud services. It discusses intelligent workload management across physical, virtual, and cloud environments to deliver business services.

1. T he J o urney
Fo r A D em a nding B us ines s

3. 21st CENTURY COMPUTING

4. STRATEGIC BUSINESS RELATED IT ISSUES
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5. PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL & CLOUD UTILIZATION TREND
Percent of enterprise workloads that will run in physical, virtual and cloud
environments by 2015 based on IDC and Gartner data

6. THE SERVER WORKLOAD
Server
Data
Applications
Operating System
A server workload is the operating system,
applications and data, that reside on a
physical server or virtual host.

8. MIGRATE TO & CONSUME THE CLOUD

9. Data Center Workshops
Inventory (manual intake)
Analysis two-staged
Migration
testing & reconfiguring
workload compliancy by
4% automated scripting
10%
move to production
live x2v
live sync
also for x2p
copy workload
workload
conversions
5% 10%
8%
25%

10. Johannesburg Cape Town
Workload Protection

12. Intelligent workload management
enables IT organizations to manage
and optimize computing resources
in a policy-driven, secure and
compliant manner across physical,
virtual and cloud environments to
Intelligent
WORKLOAD deliver business services for end
Management customers.

13. THE N O W N O W jus t N O W